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Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity

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The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices.

In The Sound of Pictures, Andrew Ford listens to the movies. He speaks to acclaimed directors and composers, discovering radically different views about how much music to use and when. And he explores some of cinemas most curious sonic moments. How did Alfred Hitchcock use music to plant clues in his films? Why do some mix-tape soundtracks work brilliantly and others fall flat? How do classics from A Clockwork Orange to The Godfather, Cinema Paradiso to High Noon, use music and sound effects to enhance what we see on screen?

Whether youre a film-buff or a music lover, The Sound of Pictures will enrich your experience of the movies.

Andrew Ford's book is delightfully snippy and entertaining. More importantly, it's also wonderfully informed in a way that will enhance film viewing past, present and future. A hugely enjoyable and revelatory read. Margaret Pomeranz

Enjoyable and rewarding Adelaide Advertiser

A must read Courier Mail

The Sound of Pictures will be joyfully read by movie and music fans alike. Canberra Times

Beautifully written Sydney Morning Herald

Andrew Ford is the author of Earth Dances, Try Whistling This, Illegal Harmonies and The Sound of Pictures. He is a composer and broadcaster and presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National.

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Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers

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From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear ...

Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper tells the incredible true story of the legendary Nicholas Irving, and his journey from wayward Maryland kid to the 3rd Ranger Battalions deadliest Master Sniper.

From the brotherhood and selflessness of teammates in battle to the cold reality of taking one life to protect another, no other book so dramatically lays bare the experiences of a sniper on point.

Readers are brought into the heat of the fight with white-knuckle anxiety, as troops edge their way toward IED-laden targets, chaotic firefights, and suicide bombers. It's tough stuff, but Irving is a humble and humane narrator. What could have come across as a shallow exercise in chest-thumping is much more.Publishers Weekly

Nicholas Irving spent six years in the Armys Special Operations 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment, serving from demolitions assaulter to Master Sniper. He was the first African American to serve as a sniper in his battalion. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Gary Brozek has co-authored nearly 20 books, including five New York Times bestsellers.

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The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

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From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wage

David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of recent episodes, including the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 199091 increases in the federal minimum wage. In each case they present a battery of evidence showing that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs.

A distinctive feature of Card and Krueger's research is the use of empirical methods borrowed from the natural sciences, including comparisons between the "treatment" and "control" groups formed when the minimum wage rises for some workers but not for others. In addition, the authors critically reexamine the previous literature on the minimum wage and find that it, too, lacks support for the claim that a higher minimum wage cuts jobs. Finally, the effects of the minimum wage on family earnings, poverty outcomes, and the stock market valuation of low-wage employers are documented. Overall, this book calls into question the standard model of the labor market that has dominated economists' thinking on the minimum wage. In addition, it will shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage in Washington and in state legislatures throughout the country.

With a new preface discussing new data, Myth and Measurement continues to shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage.

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David Card, Alan B. Krueger, David Card, Alan B. Krueger

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Stability and Stabilization is the first intermediate-level textbook that covers stability and stabilization of equilibria for both linear and nonlinear time-invariant systems of ordinary differential equations. Designed for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics, the book takes a unique modern approach that bridges the gap between linear and nonlinear systems.

Presenting stability and stabilization of equilibria as a core problem of mathematical control theory, the book emphasizes the subject's mathematical coherence and unity, and it introduces and develops many of the core concepts of systems and control theory. There are five chapters on linear systems and nine chapters on nonlinear systems; an introductory chapter; a mathematical background chapter; a short final chapter on further reading; and appendixes on basic analysis, ordinary differential equations, manifolds and the Frobenius theorem, and comparison functions and their use in differential equations. The introduction to linear system theory presents the full framework of basic state-space theory, providing just enough detail to prepare students for the material on nonlinear systems.

Focuses on stability and feedback stabilization
Bridges the gap between linear and nonlinear systems for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students
Balances coverage of linear and nonlinear systems
Covers cascade systems
Includes many examples and exercises

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How to go from a beginner to an expert birder

Better Birding reveals the techniques expert birders use to identify a wide array of bird species in the fieldquickly and easily. Featuring hundreds of stunning photos and composite plates throughout, this book simplifies identification by organizing the birds you see into groupings and offering strategies specifically tailored to each group. Skill building focuses not just on traditional elements such as plumage, but also on creating a context around each bird, including habitat, behavior, and taxonomyparts so integral to every bird's identity but often glossed over by typical field guides. Critical background information is provided for each group, enabling you to approach bird identification with a wide-angle view, using your eyes, brain, and binoculars more strategically, resulting in a more organized approach to learning birds.

Better Birding puts the thrill of expert bird identification within your reach.

Reveals the techniques used by expert birders for quick and easy identificationSimplifies identification with strategies tailored to different groupings of birdsFeatures hundreds of photos and composite plates that illustrate the different techniquesFosters a wide-angle approach to field birdingProvides a foundation for building stronger birding skills

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The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries

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How American industries rose to dominate the economic landscape in the twentieth century

For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental Capitalism examines six key industriesautomobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillinand tracks the highs and lows of American high-tech capitalism and the resulting innovation landscape. Employing "nanoeconomics"a deep dive into the formation and functioning of companiesSteven Klepper determines how specific companies emerged to become the undisputed leaders that altered the course of their industry's evolution.

Klepper delves into why a small number of firms came to dominate their industries for many years after an initial period of tumult, including General Motors, Firestone, and Intel. Even though capitalism is built on the idea of competition among many, he shows how the innovation process naturally led to such dominance. Klepper explores how this domination influenced the search for further innovations. He also considers why industries cluster in specific geographical areas, such as semiconductors in northern California, cars in Detroit, and tires in Akron. He finds that early leading firms serve as involuntary training grounds for the next generation of entrepreneurs who spin off new firms into the surrounding region. Klepper concludes his study with a discussion of the impact of government and the potential for policy to enhance a nations high-tech industrial base.

A culmination of a lifetime of research and thought, Experimental Capitalism takes a dynamic look at how new ideas and innovations led to Americas economic primacy.

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Steven Klepper, Serguey Braguinsky, David A. Hounshell, John H. Miller

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An accessible and innovative look at Irish history by some of today's most exciting historians of Ireland

This book brings together some of today's most exciting scholars of Irish history to chart the pivotal events in the history of modern Ireland while providing fresh perspectives on topics ranging from colonialism and nationalism to political violence, famine, emigration, and feminism.

The Princeton History of Modern Ireland takes readers from the Tudor conquest in the sixteenth century to the contemporary boom and bust of the Celtic Tiger, exploring key political developments as well as major social and cultural movements. Contributors describe how the experiences of empire and diaspora have determined Irelands position in the wider world and analyze them alongside domestic changes ranging from the Irish language to the economy. They trace the literary and intellectual history of Ireland from Jonathan Swift to Seamus Heaney and look at important shifts in ideology and belief, delving into subjects such as religion, gender, and Fenianism.

Presenting the latest cutting-edge scholarship by a new generation of historians of Ireland, The Princeton History of Modern Ireland features narrative chapters on Irish history followed by thematic chapters on key topics. The book highlights the global reach of the Irish experience as well as commonalities shared across Europe, and brings vividly to life an Irish past shaped by conquest, plantation, assimilation, revolution, and partition.

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The first history of the new deal in global context

The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globenot just in Europe but also in Latin America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Work creation, agricultural intervention, state planning, immigration policy, the role of mass media, forms of political leadership, and new ways of ruling America's coloniesall had parallels elsewhere and unfolded against a backdrop of intense global debates.

By avoiding the distortions of American exceptionalism, Kiran Klaus Patel shows how America's reaction to the Great Depression connected it to the wider world. Among much else, the book explains why the New Deal had enormous repercussions on China; why Franklin D. Roosevelt studied the welfare schemes of Nazi Germany; and why the New Dealers were fascinated by cooperatives in Swedenbut ignored similar schemes in Japan.

Ultimately, Patel argues, the New Deal provided the institutional scaffolding for the construction of American global hegemony in the postwar era, making this history essential for understanding both the New Deal and America's rise to global leadership.

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The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English

The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethes work as playwright, poet, novelist, and autobiographer is fully represented. In addition to the works for which he is most famous, including Faust Part I and the lyric poems, the volume features important literary works that are rarely published in Englishincluding the dramas Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso and the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship, a foundational work in the history of the novel. The volume also offers a selection of Goethes essays on the arts, philosophy, and science, which give access to the thought of a polymath unrivalled in the modern world. Primarily drawn from Princetons authoritative twelve-volume Goethe edition, the translations are highly readable and reliable modern versions by scholars of Goethe. The volume also features an extensive introduction to Goethes life and works by volume editor Matthew Bell.

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Selected poemsFour complete dramas: Faust Part I, Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato TassoThe complete novel Wilhelm Meisters ApprenticeshipA selection from the travel journal Italian JourneySelected essays on art and literatureSelected essays on philosophy and scienceAn extensive introduction to Goethes life and worksA chronology of Goethes life and timesA note on the texts and translations

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Matthew Bell, Matthew Bell

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In 1877 young Barney Simpson leaves colonial Sydney town in search of his fugitive father who, as farrier for the police, murdered a trooper two years earlier. 

His journey takes him to a gold rush town in northern Australia where thousands of fortune seekers are digging for gold. Barney becomes immersed in life on the frontier, witnessing its highs and lows. 

While employed as leading hand at the Cavalier hotel in Cooktown he conducts his search. His investigations take him to places beyond his imagination, challenging his courage and at times his sanity. He is unaware of the identity of Abbeys husband and mistakenly engages her in a passionate embrace behind the stables. He could never have guessed the implications that flow from the interlude. 

Street-wise Barney wrestles with the problems encountered, trying to side-step some and confronting others. If his initiatives fail then the outcome for his father and the others involved will be disastrous. 

The Farriers Son, well researched and true to the times, gives a colourful commentary of Australian colonial life. 


The story relives history telling in dramatic fashion how the rich and the poor collide with one another and the law. 


The portrayal clearly describes the ethnic conflict between the Europeans and the Chinese who flock to the diggings and the Aborigines defending their land.

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Have you ever needed a funny story or a quick one-liner to tell? 52 Weeks may be the answer for you. This book is a collection of humorous stories (52) and one-liners (52) designed in an easy to follow topical index. 

Be the life of the party for any social event, conferences and gatherings among friends, as you entertain with stories that are connected to your current conversations. There is a topical story and a one-liner for each week of the year and your guests are sure to admire your ability to put a smile on their faces.

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Tell me a story, Kit...

Its All Hallows Eve and Kit Marlowes evening is disrupted by the call of an ethereal voice, requesting a tale for the haunted night. From the depths of his creative mind comes the tale of ghostly horrors and unearthly cries which rattles even the most supernatural of beings...

Fans of M. J. Trows Kit Marlowe mysteries must not miss this chilling short.

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In recent years the pace of reform in health policy and the NHS has been relentless. But how are policies formed and implemented? This fully updated edition of a bestselling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power lies, and what changes could be made to improve the quality of health policy making. Drawing on original research by the author over many years, and a wide range of secondary sources, the book examines the role of various institutions in the formation and implementation of health policy. Unlike most standard texts, it considers the impact of devolution in the UK and the role of European and international institutions and fills a need for an up-to-date overview of this fast-moving area. It features new case studies to illustrate how policy has evolved and developed in recent years. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect policies under the later years of New Labour and the Coalition government. Although written particularly with the needs of students and tutors in mind, this accessible textbook will also appeal to policy makers and practitioners in the health policy field.

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Negester oor Nineve (1947) is die bevestiging van Opperman se digterskap en bring n verdere ontwikkeling na die debuutbundel deurdat die basiese drie motiewe nouer verbind en die afsonderlike verse in n groter mate by n omvattende konsepsie ingeskakel word.  J C Kannemeyer

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With "Flagwatching", top-selling author Clem Sunter breaks new ground. Building on the more abstract discipline of scenario planning for which he is internationally known, this book offers an innovative, highly practical method for decoding the future. Flagwatching is something we do every day. Whether it is detecting a change of facial expression during a conversation with a friend, spotting the potential dangers when driving a car or monitoring our own health, we are on the alert for significant flags. Now Sunter weaves a persuasive and entertaining case for applying this natural habit to the field of organisational strategy. Learn to identify the flags that are changing the game, play the different scenarios and consider your options before taking action. This book provides a diverse set of flags to watch in the world at large and in South Africa. It will help your business or organisation become a leader in anticipating our fast-changing times.

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Joernaal van Jorik (1949), is n vyfdelige epiese gedig in kwatryne met gekruiste rym. Die gedig handel oor die geskiedenis van Jorik (n naam wat saamgestel is uit die digter se voorname Diederik Johannes)  wat tydens die Tweede Wereldoorlog in n duikboot as spioen in Kaapstad aankom. Hy leer die land en sy mense, sy verskeidenheid landskappe en kontraste ken en raak verstrik in die politieke situasie en lewenswyse van Suid-Afrika.  J C Kannemeyer

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Dolosse is n losser versameling verse, al is die dolos-motief in die betekenis van beskawingsreste of simbole van n verlede en voortekens van n dikwels somber en uitsiglose toekoms n dominerende faktor in die bundel. Die verse het dikwels Europese reisindrukke of die wereld van Franskraal as agtergrond, maar die basiese problematiek word gekonsentreer op die noodlotsgang van die Afrikanervolk, die ganse Westerse beskawing en die mens in sy aftakeling. - J C Kannemeyer

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Met Blom en baaierd (1956) bou Opperman deur die reeksstruktuur, parallelismes, sirkulering van simbool en beeld en tipografiese rangskikking n hegte bundeleenheid op. In hierdie bundeleenheid verteenwoordig Oud-digter en Paddas onderskeidelik futiliteit en die bose teenoor sinvolheid en die goeie. Al die gedigte tot Nagwag staan in die teken van die Suid-Afrikaanse kleur-aktualiteit, terwyl die lyding in die tweede helfte van die bundel op n universeler vlak verken word. - J C Kannmeyer

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In Heilige beeste (1945), Opperman se debuutbundel, is die belydende inslag en die religieuse stryd van die Louws se eerste bundels feitlik geheel en al afwesig en beoefen hy n veel meer beeldende poesie as sy voorgangers. Daarby laat vaar hy die chronologiese of achronologiese basis vir sy rubrisering en maak hy n verdeling wat op die temas van die aardse, die vrou en die Groot-Groot-Gees uit die titelgedig berus.  J C Kannemeyer.

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Alhoewel reeds vroeer as motief aanwesig, vind die besinning oor die kunstenaarstaak besondere gestalte in die bundel Engel uit die klip (1950), n titel waarmee hy andermaal die spanning tussen die goddelike en aardse aandui, nou met die aksent op die verlossingsmotief. Nie alle gedigte handel egter oor die kunstenaarstaak nie.  J C Kannemeyer